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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 14
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Amaziah reigns well in Judah—Israel defeats Judah in battle—Jeroboam reigns in wickedness in Israel.
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In</span> the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.
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He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.  And his mother’s name <i>was</i> Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> right in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
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Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
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&#182; And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 12: 20.">slain</a> the king his father.
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But the children of the murderers he slew not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">death</a> for his <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Accountability.">own</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sin.">sin</a>.
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He slew of Edom in the valley of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 8: 13.">salt</a> ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
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&#182; Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
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And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that <i>was</i> in Lebanon sent to the cedar that <i>was </i>in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that <i>was</i> in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
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Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 8: 14; Jacob 2: 13; Alma 1: 32; Alma 31: 25; Morm. 8: 28.">lifted</a> thee up: glory <i>of this,</i> and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to <i>thy</i> hurt, that thou shouldest fall, <i>even</i> thou, and Judah with thee?
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But Amaziah would not hear.  Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which <i>belongeth</i> to Judah.
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And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.
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And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
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And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
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&#182; Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
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&#182; And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
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And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
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And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
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&#182; And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which <i>was</i> sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
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He built <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 9: 26.">Elath</a>, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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&#182; In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, <i>and reigned</i> forty and one years.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: he departed not from all the sins of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 14: 16; 2 Kgs. 10: 29; 2 Kgs. 13: 2 (1-2, 11); 2 Kgs. 15: 9 (9, 18, 24).">Jeroboam</a> the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
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He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/14/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jonah 1: 1.">Jonah</a>, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which <i>was</i> of Gath-hepher.
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> saw the affliction of Israel, <i>that it was</i> very bitter: for <i>there was</i> not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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&#182; Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, <i>which belonged</i> to Judah, for Israel, <i>are</i> they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, <i>even</i> with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.
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